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UNIVERSITY pF OXFORD. THE THIRD AND LAST LETTER TO THE MEMBERS OF CON VOCATION, FROM AN INDEPENDENT IIASTER 01? ARTS 4 Oxford, Dcc. 9. In my, last letter I endeavoured to point out ; to you the peculiar and specific canseqtences with whiCh the University must be unavoidably affected from 1...0rd GRENVILLE'S equalising system between . the Catholics and the Members of the Established Church.. I shall pursue that subject a little further. ,Sh,iuld any one ask what authority I have to shew that his Lordship's plans would introduce Papists amongst us, I should refer you to his Own prdtest of the 427th of May, 1787 ; one section. of which stands thus :—" Dissentient because we arc fully satisfied that the removal of the UNi‘:IERITED and DEGRADING E XCL USION to which a most numerous and valuable part of the' community have been so intig subje6,tcd, and the imparting to the whole people of this United Kir:glen - 1 ALL THE PRIVILEOES AND DUTIES of the British Constitution, vequid be-a mea sure of unquestionable iiistice and wisdom." Surely here is a proposal for a 'cornprehensive and a , per-. fe& equality. 'The Uni'lersity indeed.: is not here mentioned, nominaliet, as a place where the exclu skiiesis he'tiiscontinued; But' is not this aimed. 'at.? Is it intended, I ask, to deny to theCatbolicS tht• inivilege •of insttuaion and _the: attainment of degrees; preferments,' and honours, amongst us, When- _tights,. beyond, all' Corupariso? larger, have been conceded to them ? Is it meant to put awls -into their hands, but refuse them the-use of books ? —to say to them, you may be Admirals if you choOse, or Generals, Legislators .or Ministers, but. ,you shall not be Mathematicians or' Scholars:, Mas ters,-of Arts or Dodors. ,Isit. meant that a Catholic . should be allowed to preside in' dress robes titi tfie Woolsack, , -or in the. Chair in the House:of Com= Commons„and yet be prevented 'froth-, Wearing a plain ,g - owri _and , cap inter. siluas Academi too ridiculous is . such a- conceit as this. ' , What Lord , ORENVLLE's.meatling a-nd intention may be, I-can only collect from-his,ptoteskand his .speeclies, which are surely broad, -plain, and 'unqualified. But if I have misfaten am- =sure that I do not tnis take the views. and intentions of , the Catholics. As soon as Lord GRENVILLE has shewn themihe , WaY to cross the Thames at Eton; and enjoy the, honour ofb.eing on the Civil List in the King's household at. Windsor Castle, do you suppose that they, will stop, and , not come on a few'thilts further to' look at the Gothic Towers of Oxford, built - formerly by. Cardi nals in better tunes ? The - genius of the University May exclaiw, indeed, before therpass•the shallow fords of the Isis, as the gecius of the Roman Empire addressed-Csati beforene passed the Rubicon— . . • Quo tenditisAtitra . • Quo Testis yiri, si jure venitis Si rives usyse licet ? _ But the exclamation will have no better effea ; the Cat holies Willapproacji us not in armour, pet haps, hut .with some sharp weaprins neverthelesi; with Lotd GaENVlLLE'Sspeeches, protest, and equalizing bill, and they will tell us, not.only that it is then - • right, but that it is actually their DUTY, to coalesce and intermix' with us in every place and station, in every office and endowment in the University. Am I misconstruing the operation of Lord GRENVILLE'S projeCt, or the meaning . of his langolge? I assert, that on the very same day when the "unnterited and degrading exclusion" of the Catholics shall cease elsewhere, it will also cease HERE : that the moment they. become possessed of equal rights with .the members of the Established . Chureh - under the State and the Government, the same moment will bring thm equal right: in our Colleges; that the sera of imparting to them the duties and privileges of the Constitution and of the University will be one and the same. Can any one doubt that it is the view of the adherents of the Roman Catholic Communion to obtain a participation in the, patronage and founda tions of the University ?--Whoever doubts. of this has forgot some of the most important transactions' of the reign of - .I :01,ES the 2,4 What, did they not' malie that unfOrtunaieMOnateleatteropt in order to force a pas-age for them ,into the University ?At Cambridge, Doctor PEA'CIIEE, the then Vice phanr. celror and Master of Magdalen College, was sus pended and deprived of both those otbces, for not admitting FRANCIS ALAN, a Benedictine Motsx, to the /degree of Master of Arts, without taking ,the oath of.AcorcArtox, the' Monk bringing with him the K:ttg's sign . Manual, directing . that he shall be admitted WITHOUT TAKING ANY OATH .WHAT. EVER." In our own Univt.istty, - Doctor HOHGH, the Piesiclent of Magdalen, and 29 I-4'eilows, were expelled, for not, gin ing up the Prt.eidentslep to a yew Convert, named. FARMER, who brought in his . pocket.. a kind of Gouge tt! El ire, !rum _Whitehall ; aod after some tit.ie, Dodor GiteFonte a Doctor of the' ,ork , :nm and I itular Bishy gut pos session of the President's loigings, which he . : kept till he gales. which blew over the Prince - of ORANGE, blew out the hallowed tapers of the Papists. Are these things et:ough to slew what were the designs of the Papists upon us about a century since ) And is there ors;, living man who will believe that a Papist is' not new as anxious to become the head of a.Col lege, or obtain degrees in our University, as he was, belcre. , the revolution delivered us irum the Papal ty- . nanny. These proceediegs, it may be said, were those , of violence and outrage ; certainly : nor isit imputed to Lord GRENVILLE, that he would countenance at tempts of that sort. The objection to his notions is not that be would grant - the Catholic any kind of dispensation to proceed against a 13W ACTUALLY OUSTING, but that he propbses- to repeal any law w Inch a. Ca►bolic says ought 16 exist no longer. The misfortuee I impute to his system lis - , -- that it origi nates- an extensive arid deep innovation in some most tund:irnental ,rnakims of the COnstittititin, and. t. , 3 fronting a new Bill of Rights antf Privileges tor "the Papists, in reality supersedes that invaluable Bill el Rights on which the Revolution itself was found ed; and which all its consequences . depend. A very large porviOn 'of Lord GkErivteers's project would, in toy apprehension, injure the University, the Cherch, and the Government, through the very medium of a Pusetc Law, in a manner not very .d.qerent, nor in cite& less extensive, than that s-: ,, ente of policy; the attempt to establish which o -rasioned the last Prince of the : liouse of STU AiiT the loss of ,the Throne of these Kingdoms. The same ends - mould in many respe&s result, through m es as in their apparent . nature opposite to those whieh were practised before the Revolution. King JAmzi sent a mandate to' the "University..of corn. • bridge, and required a rnan' to be admitte - d to, a oe. brie without taking. the Ocah'of Abjuration. I , oa GEENVILLEWOUICI, I ainisure; exckiitn as loudly any, mai), azainit. this .outrage. But when the juration,Oatll . lias been : 11.olished „under his n ew ,, should b. glact io know what the 3 LTLTIINIATty DIFFERENCE will he to the . Universities, and how the most bigwed devotees of. the Church . of Rome, (for with black Monks perliaps we Sh:til "be less troubled). are 'to be prevented, from obtaining maul-. culatiqn, when there is No AbluytionOarli to re fuse, and NO test to decline. - Here also I :must re-. mind you, that when religious disqugfication shall cease amongst us; as to the. Church of ItOme; . it must also cease as to the dissenters from out own Church', and. our UniVersity will then become di-• Vided into different bailiwicks or commatideties— that Of, the Papists, the Church of England' men, and the Dissenters ; and I am not certain whether we must not add a -foUrth; for those who, wren all tests are ab-lished, may think it prudent not to declare ilientseltes of . any religion whatever, But • under this' Inirtition treai - y; you may be •assured that the circle which" the - SEavus-...SERVORCM will et tor his share will not be the:least . . l'4otn, this exa mination of the Oaths by which we bind ourae4itS before we are permitted to put 'on a -Corrimoner:SH 'gown, I feel myself led on to consider,a little the nature of that oath which Must _ail take on Wednesday nextt-a d.ty think the most itnpor-- tint which has ever happened in the annals. of the University—before we can be, suffered' to exercise our choice between the three candidates for our Chancellorship. You shalt' choose no 1)11e, , says the oath--°c Pvisi quern habilenz et idoneanz cert.° sciver .; vet Pinker eiedideris." 'What is Lord Gitstivii:JA'a . - fitness for this.office I wish to -know.—is it this— . that he has contravened, opposed, and,neated derisiOn and, contempt the repeated wishes, the . re corded .opinions, the .public addresses und titions of:!,the • University ? Is it •the weaning Of this office .that our' Chancellor should thrOw , down and trample under foot . the ACTA Ptri. - Lica: of our -Convocatiiin Who will that sucb a person can with.any colour of propriety be invested with the honour, the. trusi,.and the power of tire 'first Magistraey 'of the University The GRENVILLITES, and the supporters of the Ca tholic Bill, indeed atreCt to'be startled at the least breath of.ot - sjetion 'to Lord GatsviLLE. They are . ready to' declare not only that-he is - a. fit persOn, but thennly man in England ix ho 'is fit • for t ,high post; they insist that-the same urgoncy which re quires. the Catholic Bill requires his .Lordship's no mination to the vacant . Chair; that it is an affair of immEpta.Prz and uncontioulable . NECESSITY" to have hint' for our Chancellor. The salus 'Populi and the' salus Acadernim are with them ( on&and the same point ; they think thatli y- f the can FIRST CARRY, ?PIE CONVOCATION HOUSE, they can after- , .wards carry the Parliament, and next the .ears.of the Sovereign himself, with the apostaey of the University, from its ancient and reiterated sen timents'. Such are the views of the CittkiryiLia.res.- BLit whoever considers the reform of . the Test LiIWS as a measure of danger, iinpolicy,:.or disaster, will hate a point deserving of some attention to settle with' himself before the heatof party or the pressure of solicitation is allowed to supersede the• dictates of his own cool and unbiassed judgment ; .he will have to convince his own mind in the moments of pri vate refietlion, how he can pledge his faith and make his solemn asseveration before the assembled body of the University, that he deems' that caned date fit to preside over us, for, our gyce, our ho- DOW, and proteation, whose AFFECTIONS consist in DISOWNING us, and whose authority will be 'ek ereised for our destruClion. If it is. come to this, 'the academical. career is at-an end : it we'care not whether, we are fostered or reputipted, guarded or deserted, caressed 'with friendship 'or attacked with hostility ; it we abjure to-day,our own remonstrances. of yesterday ; if we make a public vow" on one day and violate it as publicly the next'; if it be' indifferent tons to preserve or throw away, that first and irn prescriptible right, the right of SELF-Dii.etick ;‘ if these thing's , are no longer a care or concern to us, then,' but. not till then, may, Lard GRENVILLE be raised to the Chair, which has been filled by CLA . .. RENDON, GUILDFORD, and PORTLAND.e MAILS. '• AR RIVF D —I Cadiz, Dublin, 3 Waterford.. Dtre,--3 Got. LuDurgh, I Lisbon, t Cadiz, 1 Waterford. PRICE o . i; S . ,FOCks THIS DAY AT TINILLVIS O'CLOCK. Consols • -I . -- - .. - FIIL SU N. • 30LILM QUIS DICZRL .FALSUM AUDEAT L 0 ND 0 N, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1809. I his morning came on to be tried before Lord ELLENBORCA/GH and a Special Jury, the IndiEtment preferred by Colonel WARDLE against Mr. WRIGHT and Mrs. CLARKE. The public curiosity was so much excited on this occasion, that soon after day- light a crowd was collected at the. door of the Court of King's Bench: Before nine o'cloc', the crowd bad increased to such a degree, that, it was found necessary to employ a great number of con stables to open a pasiage for the Council and Jury to get into CoUri. The Dukes - of Yoax. and KENT found the utmost ditficUlty in passing through the cro - tx d. At nine o'clock Lord ELLENBOROUGH having taken his seat on the Bench, . and the Jury .being sworn in, Mr. ARABIN, as Junior Counsel for the Prosecution, opened the pleadings, stating the .fats Which had occurred on the former trial, .the nwure of the pre.sent charge against the Defendants,. and their plea of the general issue. Mr. ALLEY followed on the same side: he began by expressing his regret at being left with > the whole weight of Allis great cans: cn his weak 'shoulders, his Client being dtp:ived of the able assistance of . . Mr. Serjearit BEST, avho would be examined as a , army, and for Gerona, and .the French are stated to I • , witness upon this trial. In opening this- case to the I have taken such a position es to cut off General Jury, he said, it was hisintention to avoid as much as 1 BLAKE from, all communication with Gerona. The ' possible all reference to points of . a - political nature :It accounts from the Tyrol state, that the gillant Inlia- , the veneration he felt for the virtues of the father, I bitarnS still continue in arm's against their oppressors. , . would would induce him to spare, as far as he' could; 1 ' • • i ' This morning we received Spanish Papers to the the feelings of the sons of an illustrious fauallyee-:. 1 , - - 22d November,buttheir contents are very unim- He would steer his little bark 'in safety, if he could, I portant. Private letters however state, that the from the dangers of Scylla and Charybdis, without ; giving a ' Cardinal BOURBON, has been placed at the head of pang to any one, ,more than was necessary 'for i- the Government, and that he haS ordered a number obtaieing justice for his Client, - . , lof persons under arrest. Mr. ALLEY then proceeded to state, that his, ; . . .Client, Colonel WARDLE, was an 'high-minded, An Austrian Messenger, arrived at, Dover on Sa- . . . prok,. and honourable man, whose btewshadbeen ', turday in a flag of truce from , France. - .It is proba- ' decked'with laurel for his patriotism, and who, as a . rale thathe brings over an order of recall for Prince soldier; had fought the battles of his country when - . .STattativtaktio. . . rebellion reared its head. - He then adverted to the t :.'-‘ ' ---- "'s• — • . •- • - , Tb e - r e folloWin is a extract of a letter, dated Defendants= in- this case, and -having', shortly ex.... t, •• ' ‘-. .." • ° , , FLUS BING ' 6,- e •The evacuation takes - 'patiated upon their conduet, ' he. proceeded to - DEC. . . ~ 1 , place the first fair wind. The-great bacon at Flush mete what he considered . to be. .the law of i ins is destroyed, and mines are laid under the Dock gn g land with resped to .a conspiracy, the crime i gates to blow:then - I up& , The arsenal will,be set tire - with which the present Defendants were. charged ; , to at the moment of our departure. • \ ; " Some thousands of sailors are on shore, who are upon- this point. he - quoted the opinions of Lord ; employed in' the grand work of destruction. It is 'Mai aiid7l,ralt-fa,Nsrtee..ta - :rfaving — established 1 surprising with what alarcrity they labour. It is a '. what becsonceived to be-the law.of the case, he ihens I scene of which no one who . has not ,witn ess ed th e ir -..- .. . • . , ,p.awera can form an idea. The 4asdn•is a prodigiotra . `' . stated to the Jury the nature of the evidence which j weirk of art, -and held the whole-of the French fleet ... . . .... r • . , ' • he should lay.befOre them, in order to shew ihat the previonsto our arriyal., guiltycrime w Defendants were - .of the ith which i le _.." There will not be a . single . gun left to send us ; - - ferewell . shot' at. ourdeparture." they were charged, . and he said that unless he had ' • • . i ,grossly misconceived the law of the Case-, 'or unless i Dr. POPE, of.Staines, 'attended the Princess Ama lie was completely 'deceived as to the evidence which i• , 'LIA. during•her long indisposition. Fier complaint is a he should lay before the Court,- 'he• should be able ,I, continual pail - tin-11er side, and was considered as a liver complaint: - Upon-heritorirl - Highness's retort" to. bring home the Charge' to the Defendants in . so . to Windsor, Sir F. MILIVAN, Doctors HEBERDEN clear -a-manner, as to leave no doubt in the mind of 1 and SAUNDERS were called in and consulted, and any person whatever of their guilt. Mr. ALLEY i thought her Royk Highness's complaint was an i abscess... then went at large into a detail of the various trans- - • . „ • , . aCliOns which had taken place between Colonel . ' The next accounts from the Indian Seas will, We - • .# I trust, communicate the capture 'of two more of the WARDLE, Mrs. CLARKE, and Mr. \Villain% , . ! enemy's -cliai4ers in that hemisphere, as we learn by (In thiF hasty sketch we have not time to giVe an accurate the tollovvine•letter, that two of them which b ad detail of the Learned Gentleman's Speech .; we are'merely : escaped from the Mauritius had been chased by x , endeavouring -to gratify the curiosity of our Readers, by de- , Brit,sh line of battle ship and a frigate : scribing the general outline of the proceedings.] ; • • " CAP E' OP GOOD HOPE, SEPT. 17.—Although the • Mauritius is strictly blockaded by our squadron, w e Having, as We have.already stated, adverted to the ' lg , . learn' by in 'American sent in here, that the Beilorre whole of the transaCtions between these parties, he French frigate, 'and 'the Laurel (late English sloe') proceeded to comment upon the evidence given en . of War); had made their escape from Port Louis, , the former trial; which he said was the foundation ~ latit were tot - innately observed: by our look-out fit- . gates, and . when the Arner;ca - n left te fleet, the of the present ludiament: Mr. ALLEY then alluded Raisonabteand Boa • ' Boadicea were in chase r of them, 0. .., to the pledge supposed to have been given by Col.. - By the -Bombay Gazettes We find, that notwith , WarioCe in the letter which'he . addresSed to the ' standing . the .very strict- blockade of the Mariiiuso ' the Bellone French frigate and the Laurel sloop of Public immediately after the former - trial; that war, lately captured from us, had'contrived to es' . , . pledge, Mr. ALLEY said, had i . s...en completely mis- - cape out of Port ,Louis. They were, however, d i " understood ; 'ire had 'not pledged himself to indict: covered by our look-out ft idates, and - the; Raison eat', of 64 guns, and the Boadicea frigate, were ser e iii theseparties for perjury; he had only promised to.. pur,suit. of them. • bring them to justice, and by the proceedings of ! • Loss ': , F THE. Asia EasT-IrantamaN.—We a re this clay he had redeemed his pledge. ' . 1 happy to find, by the report of Capt. rrttEYIAN• intang;.::. that the crew of this slop (which was lost , It might be said, that the Defendants would be on the Ist . of June on the Gillingham Sand, in ilia deprived of 'justice by the present mode of proceed- East Indies), were all saved. 'Very little of the ,irig, because they. were courteated together in one ; cargo was saved, , - inctichnent, and could not'ghe 'evidelite tor one , arl go., Saturday an In Haman was launched at Mr. 3 TA . ER'S Dock, Deptford. On the preceding daY , , other. But he would obviate that' objection, by new 74 , 'called the Rodney, was launched iron! the - reading' over the, testimony given by them on the ' yard of Mr. B / ERNARD, et the same place.• - . former trial, .andineking it a part of the proceedings , THE TnEATßfi.—There was a very scanty andi ,-, in the present case. He would also bring before the eo et , ce in the Pit, on. Saturday last, at Covent-(vale{ . Theatre. Toe Play was The Exilg, and thc F- , i ce e, Jury Mr. F. Wright'a Bill in Chancery, in which ' 274 - e. Portrait of Cervantes. Tile two. fitst act, or he had made his own statement. - . a . ttre.former, were heard with as Much attention .ti ' -ve ... The Learned. Counsel then adverted to the cola- ever observed in a Theatre, and the-second ad ii„..,. t h en .concluded amidst great applause. Tee-hosti , e party w . neetien ',hich. had for yea r s subsisted-between N :poured it to the Pit, and it u+ as very ' soot! Wright and Mrs. Clarke. He appeared constantly :. nearly filled. Time row, as it is called, i • thee be' to act as her' agent,.. and was upon all occasions her '; P and did not cease till some tune p , after t he . final dropping otehe curtain. Many of the part! ware the 0.. P. insignia, and several placards %veil hoisted. The' inscriptions were much the same ' 45 usual, but one; alluding to the private b a ee9i was of a very indecent nature. One o f the 0. P. . standards Was more elegant than any fora mer produaion -of. the - same kind: It was corn' posed of thin silk, and ",The publid voice is the sta . ketne Law" ,was inscribed upon it in gold letters' Many serious skirmisties took place in-the Pit be t Ween the 0. P. pariy and the Peace-otficers, the laiter-.atrerupting to seize the most conspicuous of ' the former, some of whom appeared with false noses, Barristers wigs, and other, lueicrous ali pendages. There were two persons in the Pit, why; though in female habits, were generally,considere a . as males, by their masculine proportions, aeci tlic' : aetive part which they took in the disturbances. voucher, Mr. ALLEY asserted, and said he would prove be yond all poSsibility of doubt, that Colonel WARDLE had never ordered the furniture for 'Mrs. CLARKE'S house, or made himself 'responsible 'for it. He then alluded to Major Donn,, , would-be called as a wit ness upon, this occasion, and 'who; be said, had been deprived i of a very lucrative situationin consequence of the testimony which it, was _supposed he would .give on this trial, The testimony given 'by Mrs. CLARKE and Mr. WRIGHT would not only be con tradiaed by Col.' Wiittor...n, Majcir Dun' D, and other respe&able witnesies,. but he would shew' that•.the :testimony of CLAR'KE and WRIGHT was inconsistent , with each other. On Saturday_ fourteen prisoners were tried at th e • • • Okl Bailey, two of whom were capitally convicted' . • Mr. ALLEY having gone through all the fa6ts of viz: Elizabeth, ITare, for ferOniously .being at larg e the case i and made such observations upon them as befOre the expiration of the term of fourteen' years, -occurretrfo him, concluded a 'very long speech by for which she had been ordered to be transported in ; 1803 ; and .An.hnio engo, for, assitultiog some very .strong observations on the conduct of Alexander Harvey on the King's highway, and talc' the Defendants, and by a warm panegyric upon the ing from his person, against . his will, a silver 'wale!), public and - Private virtu,...a of his client, Colonel • , his property. Michael Haggerty was convicted of perjury, in \V E ARDL, . . • . . evidence on behalf ot. Sullivan and Fitzgerald, trial' He then proceeded to call his witneeses. , in SepteMber lait for a rape. The early hour •at which this paper is put to press, John lialy;a watchman;wastried for robbing An'? e 'Wilcok the wife of . a seainati on' board one of 1 115 . • renderS it impossible for us to, give an account 0f... MAjesiY'S ships of a bUndle containing Bank notes the remainder of the proceedings, - but "our readers to 'a conSi:ierable amount, and other - property, H e • may rely upon an ample and accurate detail of them . was acquitted of the capital_ part of the indic6ne l _ lt f. .' to=morrow. The Dukcs of YORK and,kENT, Lord but found g uilt y of being an accessary after' the 1 ", 0 fence. , The poor woman excited great sympathy' MOIRA, Mr. TIERNEY, and ,several other' :the Court by 1d sivl2s ac ler modest etneanour. le guished persons were in Court. t companied t)y, two intant children. 3 1 , CORN-EXCHANGE , DEC. it.--There are , COnsi: derable supplies of Whet arrived this day. F "Last Dutch Papers to the 3d instant, reached in, the forenoon some tine samples were. nea rl y at Town. We are sorry to say that the 'accounts they last prices ;' but afterwards the general sales we r- or .. contain from Catalonia lead us althOst to despair of reduttiCn in prices of about Ns. and 3•;• Pe v a-Jo': the Safety of Gerona. The French army is staled • • .-.ter 03arley. and Malt supported, last prices ;, tro t Peas likewise ; Beans rather lower; there ire , it oe to have carried t h e t own o f H as i a l iec h, in 'which- many freSh arrivalsand that trade at . there was a depot of provisions' for Gene . ral &feta% variation; prices of Flour as our last. t